Intuition and The Harsh Voice

I think we all can recognize what that "harsh voice" that is constantly nagging at us.. saying "you should..", "you can't..", "you've got to.."...  This harsh inner voice is not our higher self, not our intuition.  This harsh voice comes from a cerebral place, a loud place in our brain.  It's constantly re-hashing the past, worrying about the future, finding something to complain about in the present. Our intuition comes from a soft place in our core, right below the heart.  Where the soul sits. Our intuition can get drowned out by the harsh voice if we can't quiet the harsh one. Our intuition waits for a space to speak up... like the wise, quiet student who patiently waits her turn to offer an insightful answer to a question. One of the great challenges in tapping into our intuition, which is there to guide us to our highest and best purpose, is to distinguish between these two voices that pop up. This takes some practice.  Here I go again with this - but honestly, truly, sincerely! - getting the mind to be still, through meditation, is how it starts.  Even just five minutes a day. Just 5 minutes. You can make time to brush your teeth each day... you just do it.  What if meditation were to become a habit just as ingrained as brushing your teeth?

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You may wonder... well, why do I really need to understand what my intuition is saying? What's the big deal?  The big deal is that our intuition keeps us on our path.  Helps guide us to what's best for us in our lives.  We can choose to ignore our intuition, yes. Or maybe we simply don't allow it space to emerge if the harsh voice is always dominating the conversation. We may see this through repeated patterns - the same pattern of bad relationships, the same pattern of jobs that don't do it for us, the same pattern of whatever variety of poor choices.  I had this experience myself, with a variety of patterns (relationships, jobs, etc.) until I learned that through meditation I could learn to break these patterns.  And allow space to work with emotions and thoughts that aren't always our friends... to identify those emotions and separate from them.  And then to move on to that vision of what our intuition tells us is best.

I took a big leap this week.. am spreading the word that I'll be leaving my day job to start this new project.  My harsh voice wants to freak out and tell me what a lunatic I am.  But it is not winning the battle...my intuitive voice is getting stronger and is calmly saying.. it will work out.  Trust and you will be fine.

I got an email to my inbox that synchronistically (this may not actually be a real word) arrived on Monday, the day I gave my notice at work.  It was a famous quote by Martin Luther King Jr:  "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."  Boy, did that speak to me that day...

I like to think that this type of faith is fueled by trusting our intuition... and allowing the harsh voice, which may have served us at one point in the past, to fade off into the distance.

The Power of the Human Brain

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Our minds are capable of much higher levels of thinking and capacity to affect the external world than we imagine. I have always been fascinated with science fiction and fantasy: I love Kurt Vonnegut and the TV shows "Fringe," and "Agents of SHIELD." In Fringe, there is an "alternate reality" and in SHIELD a distant planet that are both accessed through portals. These are just tiny examples of the power of the human imagination.  Is it just imagining, though, or actually just remembering? Many creative works of art, in film, writing, visual art, and more, simply are depicting that which can be possible.  These seemly implausible scenarios are created by someone, somewhere, who had an idea that has its roots in the human brain.  Our consciousness is all connected, across time and space, and across realms. If this is so, then what if these fantastical ideas were actually possible? Science fiction speaks also to the untapped capacity of the human brain. The assumption that humans only use about 10 percent of our brain is disputed, although when we are resting and sleeping we are using only that 10 percent. (What percent of your brain are you using if you watch TV most of the time then?) It is generally agreed upon that we only understand how 10 percent of our brain operates (you can learn more here in Scientific American).  If we were to use 100 percent of our brain's capacity, could we be tele-kinetic? Many think that the answer is yes.

We can learn to access untapped powers within our brains through the practice of meditation, and by actively envisioning goals and our future self in meditation (check out the Silva Method). I am amazed at how I have lived for so long and did not see this... Are you ready for what you might capable of if you could learn to access your brain more fully? You could change your life, and change the world for the better in the process.

A Source of Infinite Wisdom

Dear readers,

I've been gearing up for a workshop this weekend on "Restoring the Soul in the Workplace."  This is a big step of mine to start spreading some of the ideas and hopefully transformational information to others.  Simply, it is that we don't have to suffer through jobs that we know aren't supporting what our soul wants and needs.  And providing some tools on what to do start making that happen.

In developing a curriculum for the workshop, I had been stuck on the traditional concept of talking to people about the benefits of meditation in the workplace. While it is true that accessing our ability to co-create what unfolds for us starts with meditation, and this is part of what I want to talk about, there is more - much, much more. I had almost lost sight of the original purpose.  The real information that I want to share is somewhat of a secret. Not an intentionally-kept secret, but something that many of us don't know about, or don't know how to do.  I have been talking about it over and over again throughout this blog, maybe because I really want people to know that this is something they may not totally understand yet, because I didn't until recently.  There has been a book/movie about it, called "The Secret," (although their sole focus on manifesting money was a little uncomfortable for me) and other books as well. It is a concept called the "law of attraction," or just manifesting our reality, or co-creation of our destiny, etc. etc.  The point is that it is real.

There is a source of infinite wisdom out there called Abraham Hicks. It is channeled  - it is a "group consciousness from the non-physical dimension".. and most importantly they are rooted in love. They call themselves "Abraham" for the sake of we humans who like to put labels on things. Let me back up a bit...yes that's right, this is channeled, through a woman name Esther Hicks who is a medium here on Earth.  I have spent some time watching the videos of her presentations - it is hard to believe at first.  But do you know what?  It doesn't really matter, since what they say is so wonderful and seems so wise, that I choose to believe.  And you may choose to as well.  

Now, where do I come in here?  Well, I have been seeking guidance from my own guides, and I have come to believe that I need to help to spread this message.  I am starting.  It is a funny thing to try to merge the metaphysical world with the day-to-day practical world.  I keep fearing that people will read this and think I've lost my mind. But as I've heard more and more, maybe those of you reading this right now actually wonder if there is something to it.  What does happen after we die?  What happens to our souls, our spirits?  Can we really communicate with spirits?  Can people really become vessels to channel spirits on the Other Side?  I had always been curious and have spent much of my leisure time researching, exploring, learning.  And as you can tell, I am going public with it now.

Back to my career.  I am choosing also to embark on a new career to make this project a consulting, speaking, workshop, coaching thing - business most likely. I believe that my role is to help translate some of the words you read above here to those of us that need it most... those of us who struggle in our modern workplaces (or in any similar situation that causes us stress or makes us feel disconnected with our higher selves- have you ever felt like you are one person at work and one person outside of work?  That's what it is...).   Those of us who may never willingly choose to go visit a psychic or even go to a meditation class for whatever reason.  I am choosing to attempt to bring this message to you, or to others who aren't reading this, to help spread the word that you can take back control of your life.  I believe in saying things as they are (within reason), in honesty, openness, being real.  I think I can "bridge the gap." Or at least I will try.

So here is the other piece. I realized that Facebook is a great way to spread ideas and get the word out. But it also feeding a great fear of mine. I'm exposing myself to people I know from all walks of life, from my current field in social service, from high school, from wherever. People that may know only one side of me and may wonder where this other side is coming from.  I'm ripping off the veil and exposing what is beneath.  It is a scary process, but also freeing.  Writing is my creative process, as you can see.   We all have different ones.  For my husband it's music.  He is much more in touch with his intuitive side in everyday life... what an incredible guide he is for me.

The point of this is that you can do this too.. and I am excited to meet you if you want to hear more about my experience.. I want to share and maybe you can make the changes for yourself too.  Thanks for listening, as always...